Meet Rocket and Groot - score help needed from SCL 7 and 8

bluewolf

Fellow MPQers,

The new Meet Rocket and Groot event has some weird points on the nodes in SCL 9 for the 2E, 3E, 4E, and 5E.  The points match SCL 10's 3E, 4E, 5E and Challenge Node.

It is/was expected that more points would be available in 10 vs 9, just like in all prior runs of all events with a 5E where you got more points as you went to 7 to 8 to 9 vs lower SCLs.

I'm trying to get some information if 7 and 8 are looking bugged as well.

If you are playing in 7 or 8 and could provide:

1.  Your total score after the 4X opening grind in sub 1 (not overgrind nor final score for sub)

2.  Your points available in the 2E, 3E, 4E, and 5E (before clearing 4X, so the maximum points per clear of that node)

Those would be really helpful.

We may need to keep an eye on this for the whole event.

Thank you!

Xception81

In sub 1 for SCL 7, after 4 initial clears we’re sitting at 11,240 points. 

I’m 95% certain full node points haven’t changed and are still 370 for 2E, 400 for 3E, 430 for 4E, and 160 for 5E. I didn’t note them last night, but based on quick calculations of what each node is currently worth and projecting back to full, I calculated back to the 11,240 points I currently have. 

I’ll keep track of the next subs... 

Godzillafan67

For SCL 8, the total points are 12,500. The special node breakdowns:

2E: 370
3E: 400
4E: 430
5E: 475

Edit: This is sub 1.

JHawkInc

Sub 2 4x grind in SCL8 is 18898.

And if anyone wants to do the math we can get some node values with timers.

I'll keep poking people to see what else we can get.

ThaRoadWarrior

Godzillafan67 said:

For SCL 8, the total points are 12,500. The special node breakdowns:

2E: 370
3E: 400
4E: 430
5E: 475

Edit: This is sub 1.

Interesting; I'm at 12680 in SCL 10 after 4x clearing all the nodes (save the yellow node that leads it off, i only 1x clear that). I'd have expected there to be more points in the system based on what the SCL10 announcement thread was saying about the challenge node points not being counted.

Godzillafan67

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Godzillafan67 said:

For SCL 8, the total points are 12,500. The special node breakdowns:

2E: 370
3E: 400
4E: 430
5E: 475

Edit: This is sub 1.

Interesting; I'm at 12680 in SCL 10 after 4x clearing all the nodes (save the yellow node that leads it off, i only 1x clear that). I'd have expected there to be more points in the system based on what the SCL10 announcement thread was saying about the challenge node points not being counted.

That does seem low! What's SCL 9's total, the same as SCL 10? Based on @Xception81, SCL 8 generates 1260 more points over SCL 7 just from the 5E, and there's only 180 more points to be gained going to SCL 10.

bluewolf

Godzillafan67 said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Godzillafan67 said:

For SCL 8, the total points are 12,500. The special node breakdowns:

2E: 370
3E: 400
4E: 430
5E: 475

Edit: This is sub 1.

Interesting; I'm at 12680 in SCL 10 after 4x clearing all the nodes (save the yellow node that leads it off, i only 1x clear that). I'd have expected there to be more points in the system based on what the SCL10 announcement thread was saying about the challenge node points not being counted.

That does seem low! What's SCL 9's total, the same as SCL 10? Based on @Xception81, SCL 8 generates 1260 more points over SCL 7 just from the 5E, and there's only 180 more points to be gained going to SCL 10.

The points are very low in sub 1 of this event.  They go up by fixed % every time so 9 and 10 will outpace 8 as subs 2 and 3 are added on.

ThaRoadWarrior

bluewolf said:

Godzillafan67 said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Godzillafan67 said:

For SCL 8, the total points are 12,500. The special node breakdowns:

2E: 370
3E: 400
4E: 430
5E: 475

Edit: This is sub 1.

Interesting; I'm at 12680 in SCL 10 after 4x clearing all the nodes (save the yellow node that leads it off, i only 1x clear that). I'd have expected there to be more points in the system based on what the SCL10 announcement thread was saying about the challenge node points not being counted.

That does seem low! What's SCL 9's total, the same as SCL 10? Based on @Xception81, SCL 8 generates 1260 more points over SCL 7 just from the 5E, and there's only 180 more points to be gained going to SCL 10.

The points are very low in sub 1 of this event.  They go up by fixed % every time so 9 and 10 will outpace 8 as subs 2 and 3 are added on.

I guess though what I'm trying to determine is if the 5e points don't "count" towards progression, do the challenge node points still count? Or is the challenge node the new 5e node, and the 5e node points are now part of the equation for minimum viable progression?

MoosePrime

If the max target is the same value, the missing 2* essential points have to come from somewhere else.

ThaRoadWarrior

MoosePrime said:

If the max target is the same value, the missing 2* essential points have to come from somewhere else.

Sure - did the 3e & 4e nodes get point increases, or did the 5e node points start "counting" so there wouldn't be two "bonus" nodes in the sub? I'm guessing it's the latter situation, which makes sense and is fine, just not how I initially read the announcement I suppose.

Xception81

Yeah, something’s definitely been changed in this go around. Since the middle leg is a 2-day node, I had the point values already written down and they’re all different now. In SCL 7, we have a full value score or 17,010 with 4 clears (including the one-time nodes).  Individual nodes, working up the chain, are 150/330/360, then 375/375(not a mistype)/510, then 555/600/645/240.

bluewolf

All the info is really helpful, everyone! Please keep ‘em coming!

Godzillafan67

For SCL 8 Sub 2, the total number of points after the first clear is 18,898. The special node breakdowns:

2E: 555
3E: 600
4E: 645
5E: 712

ThaRoadWarrior

Just 4x cleared everything in Sub 2 in SCL 10, sitting on 19170 pts. Challenging Node continues to be challenging but not Impossible. Magn3to/Mystique/Subject

DAZ0273

So are the 2* points in the 5E now? That would make a lot of sense really to me because SCL10 should be about 5* and ignoring that node as a vital part of points scoring for full prog seems anti-intuitive as a design.

ThaRoadWarrior

^this is now my working theory, yeah. I think the 5e is now part of the track, and that "extra-ness" just moved over to the challenging node. Seems fine such as it is, but would have been cool to spell that out.

DAZ0273

ThaRoadWarrior said:

^this is now my working theory, yeah. I think the 5e is now part of the track, and that "extra-ness" just moved over to the challenging node. Seems fine such as it is, but would have been cool to spell that out.

Indeed, although I only really played this for a laugh to check it out I wasn't expecting points as hard to come by as they ended up - had I known that I would need to be clearing the 5E I would probably not even have bothered larking around in there.

Godzillafan67

For SCL 8 Sub 3, the total number of points after the first clear is 25,200. The special node breakdowns:

2E: 740
3E: 800
4E: 860
5E: 950